Per capita cement demand is 0.6 tons per year, and there is little hope that Guizhou's demand will improve in the next 3-5 years.

first half of this year, the demand for cement in Guizhou market declined seriously, and the sales of enterprises were generally poor. Some enterprises were even forced to shut down the kiln when the warehouse was full, coupled with the long-term off-peak production in Guizhou, a cement enterprise in Southwest Guizhou said: "In the first half of the year, the kiln opening time in the factory was only more than a month, with an average of only 8 days per month."

Recently, China Cement Network investigated the Guizhou market and learned that the current demand for cement in Guizhou mainly depends on key projects and civil markets. As one of the main carriages driving cement demand, key projects accounted for only about 20% of cement demand in Guizhou in the first half of this year. Feedback from the person in charge of a cement enterprise in Bijie shows that due to insufficient government funds, most of the key projects this year are stock projects in previous years, and few new projects have been started. "Land sales and mixing stations account for about 80% of the sales of enterprises." The person in charge said.

As for the demand for cement in Guizhou, a cement enterprise in Guizhou has conducted two demand surveys this year. For the first time, at the beginning of the year, the per capita cement demand in Guizhou market was predicted to be 0.8 tons per year, while for the second time in June, the company found that the per capita cement demand in Guizhou market dropped to 0.6 tons per year. According to statistics, the population of Guizhou Province in 2022 is about 38.56 million. According to the annual per capita cement demand forecast by the enterprise, the cement demand in Guizhou market this year may be only 23.13 million tons! According to the feedback from Guizhou cement enterprises, the cement output of Guizhou Province last year was about 150 million tons, and the problem of overcapacity may become more serious.

In this regard, local enterprises predict that there is little hope that the demand for cement in Guizhou market will improve in 3-5 years, and that the demand for cement in Guizhou market will decline by 5% in the future.

Demand has fallen sharply and overcapacity has intensified! Faced with the current severe market environment, an enterprise in Guiyang told China Cement Network that in the past two years, they have improved their competitiveness by extending the upstream and downstream industrial chain, saving energy and reducing consumption, and technological transformation, hoping to survive the current industry winter.

In order to actively respond to the national environmental protection policy, implement the concept of green and low-carbon development, and help enterprises save energy, reduce carbon, reduce costs and increase efficiency, on September 12-13, 2023. China Cement Network will hold the " 2023 Cement'Double Carbon 'Conference and the 10th China Cement Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference " in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to help the cement industry move towards a lower carbon, more energy-saving and greener high-quality development.

At the same time, the medal ceremony of "2023 Advanced Enterprises of Double Carbon in Cement Industry" and the "Double Carbon" Equipment Exhibition will be held. After the meeting, we will also organize a visit to Jiyuan Zhonglian Cement Co., Ltd. "The world's first production line of carbon sequestration auxiliary cementitious materials and low-carbon cement from flue gas CO2 of steel slag capture cement kiln".